Neuropathology Educational Conference

General:

The Neuropathology Educational Conference will take place on three Fridays each month. Each session will be scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the Neuropathology Conference Room(1-123) at Thornton Hospital.

Specific:

Interesting Case Conference: The first year fellow will be in charge of putting together around 4-8 cases to be presented from the clinical service –including surgical and autopsy neuropathology, eye pathology, and neuromuscular pathology. They should be cases with suitable special stains/IHCthat were diagnostically challenging, rare lesions, or just classic cases with frozens and smears. The fellows will drive the conference and group discussions will take place. Once a month, immunostains for neurodegenerative cases from the UCSD Alzheimer’s Center (brought by Dr. Roy) will be reviewed at this conference (as and when they become available).

Lecture: Monthly lectures will be given by Neuropathology faculty. They will be on topics such as neoplastic, vascular, neurodegenerative, inflammatory, and infectious, and neuromuscular diseases; ophthalmologic pathology, immunohistochemical and molecular diagnostic techniques in Neuropathology, and more. They will be predominately powerpoint-based,didactic lectures. The faculty may also use this forum to presentan unknown case conference with slides and/or get quick feedback from colleagues. It is desirable that the talks do not exceed 45 minutes, so some time is available afterwards for such feedback.

Journal Club: The first and second year fellows will alternate giving presentations at Journal Club. If residents are rotating on the service, they may give the presentation as well. Faculty members will rotate responsibility to oversee the fellow/resident in selection of the article/presentation. Journal club articles can be clinical or research based, on any topic of interest in Neuropathology.